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We are pleased to advertise a postdoctoral fellowship at the Lincoln Theological Institute, from 01/09/2026 - 31/08/2028. The closing date for applications is 19/04/2026. Informal enquiries are very welcome. Full details in the Further Particulars. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/internal/Job...

An unaccounted for part of the economy is how much young people virulently hate AI, despite how aggressively it's being forced on them. They realize it's making their friends dumber and ruining the world and they want nothing to do with it. From the Penn student paper: www.thedp.com/article/2026...

Driving down McPhillips last night saw gas prices ranging from $1.449 to $1.729/L Wild times to be stuck in car dependency.

I think we get away with this because Senate seats are permanent appointments (as are Bishops), so there’s no simple mechanism for removal or democratic check without a mandatory retirement or term limit. Weird how the answer to some structural challenges to democracy isn’t always “more democracy”

Meanwhile in Canada.

This map remains undefeated in its political explanatory power.

Yeah this happened to me recently and I had to go in a manually delete everything. I have no idea how they got access.

So is ranching an “extractive industry” or a form of “husbandry” or is this the same thing?

This is great. Next step is fully-subsidized transit.

Nice!

"What kind of TSA PreCheck Member are you"

Hell yeah brother.

What happened to the checks and balances?

It just seems like a completely insane way to run a country to have funding for the bureaucracy be so vulnerable to partisan grandstanding. Regular government shutdowns aren’t a thing that’s even imaginable in most countries.

I have no idea why my wife would be sending me this.

Good age to do something reckless like start a PhD.

To understand why many mainstream Jewish institutions are now psychopath-branded, consider what they've had to normalize or dismiss to keep flying Israeli flags on their websites and on their Bimahs near the Torah. Classic Rabbinic tradition correctly understands this as a desecration of God's name.

Pretty much.

So the steep drop-off at the end is a COVID thing and I can’t find numbers from the last five years but according to StatsCan the divorce rate is getting quite low in Canada. Which feels off simply because I’ve got so many divorced friends.

Select scenes from the sibling pub crawl this evening.

It’s just so embarrassing that Joe Rogan is this popular.

Normally this guy drives me nuts because becomes across as an insufferable know-it-all, but this video about how little time you save from speeding is absolutely fantastic: youtube.com/shorts/DiiPu...

Remember when Idle No More was saying “reconciliation is dead”? I guess they could see where this was heading. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Movie time!

Editorial from our student newspaper: "In its tireless support for AI, the University has essentially endorsed shortcuts and the outsourcing of academic thinking"

Holy Week is almost upon us.

This is very beautiful.

Looking for resources: what are your favourite books or articles on the doctrine of creation?

Not even I understand why these specific books ended up on my desk.

MB government is already openly speculating about getting rid of policy analysts and replacing them with copilot so…

Who wants to come work at one of the truly thriving parishes in our diocese? jobs.anglican.ca/job/diocese-...

Should I be writing? Yes. But also there are bookings to be made and emails to be obsessed over. Work-like content.

Did Chuck Norris die or did he kill death?

Wow. The new Dune sequel looks amazing!

I'm not even really a "Shakespeare guy" and yet I'm in a protracted argument with a friend about a book and my brain keeps filling up with more and more obscure lines from the Bard in place of actual arguments.

In "A Disciple's Prayerbook," www.anglican.ca/resources/go... there's a reference to a teaching from Ephrem that Christ entered Mary's womb by her ear. So when we hear the gospel, Christ is incarnate amongst us. The reference is in Ephrem's "Homily on the Nativity" archive.org/details/harp...

I’ve heard Manitoba translated a bunch of ways, but an Elder this evening just translated it, “a place to sit and talk with God” and that’s really resonating.

I think @godwelcomesall.bsky.social is officially now the Jeopardy Priest.

Very pumped to get to hang out with Shelagh tonight!

When I was at ACPO a priest bragged about disappearing all the BCPs out of every parish he'd served at because "lay people simply can't understand what propitiation means." The interesting thing about that declaration is that presumably one of the things a priest can do in that situation is teach.

This war really isn't going to end well. www.ft.com/content/5b66...

Social views* significantly to the left. Fiscally, mainliners are majority Tory.

The metric I’d love to know for theological ed is the breakdown of tuition revenue and endowment/donor support at all ATS schools. Is there a report on this that anybody has come across? The other thing that would be good to know is what kind of direct church/denominational support still exists.

The Treatied Spaces Research Group will be hosting Professor Eliga Gould at the University of Birmingham to celebrate the US Semiquincentennial. Please do come along and circulate where you can!

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I really like this. I've tried to argue exactly this in the discrete classes I teach but it's cool to see a seminary creating a required course that does this work. youtu.be/f9HrIJaOcNk?...

What are we doing?

It’s ALL in the text.